Temp jobs linked to childlessness for women

By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The likelihood of a woman remaining childless at age 35 increases with each year spent in a temporary position, a new Australian study finds. “This is an important topic to study because the majority of people living in Western countries want to have children as part of leading a fulfilling life,” Vivienne Moore, the study’s senior author, wrote in an email to Reuters Health. Moore is a professor in the discipline of public health and the Robinson Institute at the University of Adelaide in Australia. Moore said her team’s study cannot determine why temporary jobs are linked to being childless later in life.